KMWorld articles from July 2004

KMWorld archives from July 2004

EMC has high hopes for ILM.(information life cycle management)
July 1, 2004... It's never a surprise when a CEO is bullish on his or her company, as was EMC's (emc.com) CEO Joe Tucci at the company's annual Analysts Day in June. Tucci was especially bullish considering the general climate of the tech sector, forecasting...

Inside In-Q-Tel: exclusive interview.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, has invested significantly in knowledge management technology. What drives In-Q-Tel and just what does it expect from its investments? KMWorld's Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar interviews In-Q-Tel's...

Keener eye for the spy guys.(Screening Room 3.0)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The FBI (fbi.gov) and the Department of Homeland Security (dhs.gov) are among the first government agencies to license the newest version of Convera's (convera.com) Screening Room, an optional component to Convera's RetrievalWare enterprise...

2003 training trends.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... E-learning initiatives expenditures: up 22% over 2002 Corporate training expenditures: little or no growth Source: IDC

Google for the enterprise.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Available in three models, the new Google (google.com) Search Appliance is described as an integrated hardware/software search product that enables corporations, universities and government agencies to deliver search results on their intranets...

Interwoven unveils OpenDeploy 6.(Industry Watch)
July 1, 2004... Interwoven (interwoven.com) announces OpenDeploy 6, what it calls a significantly enhanced code and content deployment product that plays a vital role within Interwoven's integrated Enterprise Content Management Platform and Interwoven's Web...

Kofax offers more CM support.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Kofax (kofax.com) now supports IBM's (ibm.com) DB2 Content Manager Express Edition V8.2. The Ascent Capture integration module for DB2 Content Manager Express is said to offer users access to a comprehensive production capture solution,...

A new version of knowledge.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... KnowledgeBase Solutions (know ledgebase.net) claims Version 4.0 of its hallmark software is the most feature-rich edition of KnowledgeBase.net, an application that combines document and knowledge management with search technology and...

Kanisa and webMethods form alliance.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Kanisa (kanisa.com) reports it will embed webMethods' (webmethods.com) complete suite of integration adapters. Under the terms of the agreement, webMethods becomes Kanisa's standard within its Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) module. As...

eDocs' addition.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... eDocs (edocs.com) has acquired the Brightware (brightware.com) business unit of Firepond (firepond.com). eDocs says the move complements its existing e-billing, Web self-service and assisted care offerings. The company reports it plans to...

Intelliseek introduces BlogPulse.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Intelliseek (intelliseek.com) has introduced BlogPulse (blogpulse.com), a free online search and tracking tool that measures and ranks opinions and "buzz" about key issues, people, phrases and links that occur daily in more than a million...

The corporate taxonomy: creating a new order.
July 1, 2004... According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, a "certain Chinese encyclopaedia" classified animals as: belonging to the Emperor; embalmed; trained; sloppy; sirens; fabulous; stray dogs; included in this classification; trembling like...

Convergence in content management: a slew of factors are driving the convergence of content management technologies and vendors.
July 1, 2004... For many vendors, content management has transcended Web publishing. Competitive pressure and technological innovation are spurring the convergence of complementary technologies in the form of "smart suites" and of disparate processes via...

XML and enterprise content management.(Arbortext)
July 1, 2004... Remember the first time you saw the Grand Canyon? Or Niagara Falls? Sure, you had seen them in pictures and on television, but nothing could live up to being there. You simply could not fully appreciate them without seeing them for yourself....

Solving the world's most complex document challenges.(Astoria Software)
July 1, 2004... Imagine that you are responsible for all the documents that support aircraft maintenance at an airline. You must ensure that your documents are always current with the latest changes from subject matter experts (SMEs), your maintenance group,...

A sordid side of IT.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... On the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, a colleague forwarded me an e-mail she received with the comment, "Unbelievable!" That message, from a vendor that will remain nameless, described what it saw as the tragic events of the previous day. I...

Things I know.(Opinion)
July 1, 2004... I know the earth is round. I know this because (I presume) when I was first introduced to the concept of the earth, it was by having a teacher hold a globe. Since then, everything I've been told and experienced has been consistent with the...

Why the legal industry is different ... and why it's also the same.
July 1, 2004... Lawyers are different than you and me. And not just because they have their own category of jokes. (A Google search of "lawyer jokes" found 262,000 sites.) No, lawyers are different because they work differently. For example, law firms...

Letting lawyers work the way they want to work.(Matter-Centric Management)
July 1, 2004... Law firms operate in an increasingly competitive environment. First, globalization requires firms to reach beyond their traditional boundaries, forge alliances internationally and practice in multiple specialized areas of the law. Secondly, the...

Advanced Text Analytics: improving litigation preparation and legal KM; An Entrieva success story.(Knowledge Management)
July 1, 2004... "Once the legal profession gains experience with text mining and auto- categorization, this technology will empower lawyers to focus human resources more quickly and efficiently on the highest value documents, allowing them to leverage and...

Using conceptual search to discover the needle in the haystack.
July 1, 2004... In today's digital age, statistics reflect that more than 90% of new corporate data is created electronically, and that 40% of that data is never converted to paper. (1) This deluge of corporate data raises serious issues about storage,...

The Universe of Search: navigating through the complex enterprise search marketplace.
July 1, 2004... The recent and profound explosion in the enterprise search marketplace can be attributed to one word: "expectation." Nearly every observer, analyst and vendor credits the ubiquity and success of the commercial Web search engines--and Google...

Autonomy.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Autonomy Corporation is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including call center, customer relationship management, knowledge...

Convera: the power to discover.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Convera is a leading provider of enterprise search and categorization solutions. RetrievalWare 8, Convera's knowledge discovery platform, enables fast, personalized searches resulting in exceptionally high productivity and returns on investment...

Endeca[R]: don't stop at search[TM].(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Endeca Search and Guided Navigation(SM) solutions help knowledge-centric organizations in government (CIA, the Library of Congress), financial services (Putnam Investments, Quick & Reilly), manufacturing (Arrow Electronics, Cabot Corporation),...

Entopia: improve competitive advantage with Entopia's enterprise search and knowledge services.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... When it comes to leveraging your enterprise knowledge for competitive advantage and improved performance, you will find no better partner than Entopia. Entopia's enterprise search and range of knowledge services leverage the enterprise...

Entrieva; Advanced Text Analytics: making search effective.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... The only way that "searching" can lead to "finding" is when searches are performed and results are delivered in meaningful context to the user. Entrieva's Semio categorization technology has long been used to make searches more effective. ...

Fast enabling information on demand[TM].(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... FAST[TM] creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's enterprise search platform (FAST ESP[TM]) elevates the...

Google[TM] Search Appliance.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... As the amount of critical enterprise information continues to multiply like never before, experts report people now spend a quarter of their day just looking for information. Because it takes too much work to find what they need, productivity...

Inxight.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Inxight is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery. Using Inxight solutions, companies can now discover, retrieve and connect with the roughly 85 percent of information contained in unstructured text...

Muse[TM]: the metasearch company.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Metasearch technology from MuseGlobal lets you give your customers a single point of access to information from any number of internal and external data sources. Muse weaves the combined searching power of external subscription databases,...

Recommind[TM]: MindServer powers enterprise search.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... MindServer is distinguished among enterprise search systems by delivering the most accurate and automated search available for an organization's documents, web pages, and email. The MindServer platform offers a more effective way to organize,...

SER: where keyword & full-text search engines fall short ... SERglobalBrain[R] excels.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Today, many companies use keyword and full-text search engines--negatively impacting staff productivity and efficiency. Because these search engines look for exact matches of query terms, the search process is time consuming and often yields...

240 Teragram linguistic technologies.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Teragram Search Solution closely integrates search technology with dynamic browsing, categorization and taxonomy management, email alerts and user profiling, along with linguistic support tools, all using Teragram proprietary linguistic...

Thunderstone.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... THUNDERSTONE SOF TWARE has been providing enterprise search and knowledge management systems to industry, government, and educational institutions since 1981. Thunderstone provides off-the-shelf products; tools for application development and...

ZyLAB[R]: the paper filing company.(Special Advertisement Section: the Universe of Search Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... In 1983, ZyLAB was the first company to deliver a PC-based full-text retrieval software package called ZyINDEX. Since 1991 ZyLAB has focused its development efforts on ZyIMAGE (DoD 5015.2 STD certified), aimed at delivering the best search...

Listening to the voices in your head.(Personal Toolkit)
July 1, 2004... Iran into a lot of trouble last year on a KM panel when I was asked if I had a favorite decision support tool and I held up my mobile phone. Like many knowledge workers, especially free agents, my portable number is my main point of contact....